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		<p>As most of you know, Ed and I met in high school but we are not "high school sweethearts". We were just friends.</p>
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		<p>He was a year ahead of me in high school (although I graduated a year ahead of him from college. . ) and we hung out with the same group of people, went to the same places to chill, and always seemed to have a good time. We never really got to know each other until we both went to community college together at MCC. </p>
		<p>It just so happened that we both signed up for a fluff film class at their remote campus 2 nights a week. This is when we began to become friends. We watched oddball artistic films, made fun of the crazy professor together and copied each others papers. I mean shared thoughts and opinions on movies. </p>
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		<p>After MCC took me as far as it could. I decided to move to Tampa and go to fashion school up there. I lived in a small studio apartment and I really didn.t know anyone up there Instead of making new friends in my new town, I would drive back to Sarasota every weekend and hang out with Ed and our other friends.
		<p>Well people got older and they started having and falling apart so I found myself making less and less trips to Sarasota. His work kept him driving all over Florida a lot especially Tampa. At least once a week when he was in Tampa, we could, take turns buying each other lunch. I didn't have a job while in school but I did have a loving mother who would give me $50 a week allowance. That was plenty of money for me every week but when it was my turn to buy us lunch, that would suck dry more than half of my money for the week! I would save as much money as I could so I would have enough money to buy him lunch,. Every other week I would live off of top ramen and water so we could go down to the Indian restaurant and get some curry and rice. I looked forward to it every week.</p>
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		<p>Finally, many weeks later Ed Asked me out. He drove to Tampa dressed up his hair was pulled back and his face was freshly shaven. He was so handsome.</p>
		<p>Anyways the date was worth waiting for and we started seeing each other exclusively after that. He moved to Orlando for college but that had no effect on our relationship.</p>
		<p>So lets see where are we in our story, Boy meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, boy asks girl to marry him, ok, here we are the engagement. Ed asked me to go on a fancy date one night, well it was December 13th, so I came home from work and got dressed and prettied up and did my normal routine for fancy date night. As we were getting ready to leave, I noticed it was really cold out but I didn't have any nice coats to wear with my dress. Ed pulled out a beautiful black coat he bought for me to wear that night! ( clue #1). So I put the coat on and out we went. We showed up to a very nice restaurant, on the 28th floor of a high-rise downtown. It was still early so the restaurant wasn't open yet so we went to the bar to have a drink. He seemed so nervous, he kept going to the bathroom and he was sweating (Clue #2). He was so nervous when he asked for 2 gin and tonics from the bartender he barely croaked out the word "tonic" and she didn't hear it so we got 2 tall glasses of straight gin! (Woot!)</p>
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		<p>So anyways to make a long story short(too late) we got to the restaurant, on the top floor of a high-rise facing out a window overlooking the city lights and we ordered our dinner. As we were finishing our desserts, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a little wood box with the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. He said "the last few years with you have been the best in my life and I know they will only get better, will you merry me?"</p>
		<p>So now you know the story and I hope everyone can come and share this very important day with us!</p>

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